Difference between revisions of "Los Angeles, California"
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There is a URL that will take you directly to the google map for the current day's geohashing point: [http://www.gypsypunk.net/lagh/ http://www.gypsypunk.net/lagh/]. As of 2008-05-31, this URL does not point to the coordinates displayed on [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/ http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/]. | There is a URL that will take you directly to the google map for the current day's geohashing point: [http://www.gypsypunk.net/lagh/ http://www.gypsypunk.net/lagh/]. As of 2008-05-31, this URL does not point to the coordinates displayed on [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/ http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/]. | ||
| + | * I think that is because today's date is 2008-05-30; the URL does show today's coordinates correctly, and presumably tomorrow the URL will show tomorrow's coordinates. [[User:Daniel.v.h|Daniel]] 23:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC) | ||
== Notable Dates == | == Notable Dates == | ||
Revision as of 23:19, 30 May 2008
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| Santa Barbara | Los Angeles, California | San Bernardino |
| – | Long Beach | Santa Ana |
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The Los Angeles, CA graticule is at latitude 34, longitude -118. It does not, of course, enclose the entire city of Los Angeles, much less the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is debatably the most central graticule for Los Angeles, and includes downtown LA. Long Beach may make a good backup graticule, but it is primarily composed of ocean.
There is a URL that will take you directly to the google map for the current day's geohashing point: http://www.gypsypunk.net/lagh/. As of 2008-05-31, this URL does not point to the coordinates displayed on http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/.
- I think that is because today's date is 2008-05-30; the URL does show today's coordinates correctly, and presumably tomorrow the URL will show tomorrow's coordinates. Daniel 23:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Notable Dates
5/24/08: First LA geohashing meetup! Definitely a success.
